Swanborough Manor Papers

Catalogue

Manuscripts from Lady Reading

Red portfolio marked Genealogical. Owners de Warenne, Caryll, Sackville, De la Warr. Associations. King Alfred. Includes ms. list by D. Cox and ts. list. 1/1

Buff folder marked; 1. Rental 30th Sept. 1618 to 2lst Sept. 1619, 2. Rental 163? - 1658, 3. Extracts from Manorial Records, Sackville Manuscripts, in Kent Record Office. 1/2

Buff portfolio containing four folders as follows; a. The manor lands, b. People. Including a page for every surname mentioned in Court Rolls 1578-83 (at Chichester), c. Land. Including every place name mentioned in Court Rolls 1578-33 (Chichester), d. Land tax assessment 1780-1829. 1/3

Blue portfolio labelled Swanborough Hundred. Court Rolls. 1/4

Green portfolio marked Genealogical Parish Registers 1/5

Buff portfolio labelled Swanborough Dr. Kerling's notes on Minister's Accounts 2/6

Dark green ring binder labelled - Notes largely de Warenne. 2/7

Brown and yellow portfolio marked Notes on Swanborough Manor from 11th century and owners - 1951 and notes on titles. 2/8

Grey portfolio labelled Swanborough local families. 2/9

Blue folder marked Sussex Record Society. 2/10

Green exercise book Labelled Courts, Newhaven etc. 3/11

Buff folder labelled Swanborough. Parish Registers Caryll etc. 3/12

Red portfolio marked Genealogical. Census. Poll books. Directories, Apprentices. 3/13

Pink portfolio marked Genealogical. Miscellaneous sources. 3/14

Red portfolio not marked or labelled. [Notes on Courts.] 3/15

Pink folder marked Queen Edith. Miscellaneous. 3/16

Red folder not marked or labelled. [Contains miscellaneous notes.] 3/17

Alphabetical index of family names. On sheets tied together. 3/18

Buff folder marked Kingston and Iford Inclosure Award. 1830. 3/19

Buff folder marked Tithe maps [etc.] 3/20

Six sheets clipped together and marked Manor of Swanborough. Courts. 4/21

Bundle of notes labelled Octavo notes. Anglo-Saxon and Norman Conquest [etc.] 4/22

Buff portfolio labelled Notes for Chapter II. Queen Edith and key to Anglo-Saxon Place Names. [Contains a draft headed Chapter II.] 4/23

Grey folder not marked or labelled. [Contains notes an Edith, Edward the Confessor, Domesday Book, etc.] 4/24

Buff folder labelled Illustrations and tracings. Key to Saxon Place-names. 4/25

A copy of F.C. Clark, Did the builder of Bodiam Castle also construct Dalyngrigge's Bay. 1955. 4/26

Black ring binder containing miscellaneous notes (preceded by an index). [Contains list of Chapters for proposed book,. The story of Swanborough Manor] 4/27

Grey folder not marked or labelled containing miscellaneous notes. 5/28

Black ring binder labelled Sussex Families. 5/29

Grey folder labelled Notes on early chapters. Swanborough. 5/30

Red folder labelled Mainly de Warenne. [but actually containing notes mainly on King Alfred.] 5/31

Grey ring binder labelled Swanborough. The house described with historical notes. 5/32

Red folder marked Cluniac order. Lewes Priory. 5/33

Blue folder labelled Manor of Swanborough. The manor lands. 6/34

Grey folder. Swanborough Refs. to Sussex Archaeological Society's Collections. [with other notes.] 6/35

A copy of Westminster Abbey. Eighteen photographs...[etc.] 6/36

A copy of The Beaumont Collection of Lordships of manors in the counties of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk .... to be sold by auction .... 3rd November, 1954. 6/37

Buff folder marked Court books. 6/38

Blue folder labelled Notes and Extracts from the Court Books for the Manor of Iford (1689-1898), Kingston (1779-1902), and Newick (1719-1890). 6/39

Green and white stationery box containing autograph drafts of the first two chapters of the projected history of Swanborough. 6/40

Green exercise book marked The Priory of St. Pancras, Lewes. 7/41

Black ring binder not marked or labelled. Contains notes on the chronology of Swanborough Manor. 7/42

A copy of W.H. Godfrey, The priory of St. Pancras, Lewes, 1927. 7/43

A copy of two leaflets about Waltham Abbey. 7/44

A folded sheet labelled Swanborough. Genealogical tables of families. (de Warenne etc.) 7/45

Two sheets of cardboard containing (mainly) photographic copies of documents relating to Swanborough. 7/46

List of court books. On eleven ledger sheets. 7/47

Addendum

Salmon portfolio labelled: Swanborough Manor. General. 8/48
Notes: Chronology, Burrell Collection: Lamberts, Grimm. etc.
Illustrations. Maps, etc.
Blue portfolio labelled: Press marks, References etc. 8/49

Studio photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt by Douglas Glass, Sunday Times. 8/50 B.&W. 28cm x 21½cm.
Inscribed: To Stella with love and admiration Eleanor Roosevelt

Studio photograph of Rufus Isaacs, first Marquess of Reading, by Adams. 8/51
B.&W. 30cm x 23cm.
Inscribed: Yours ever Reading